About Imagination

Image capture, 3D situational awareness and image data transmission are generic technologies used in a multitude of business applications, including: production technologies, robotics, security, healthcare and digital entertainment. In all vision based professional applications, the trend in image capture continues towards higher spatial and temporal resolutions, and better image quality. The IMAGINATION project will develop:

ultra high resolution image sensors,

building blocks for visible, Time-of-flight (TOF), and 'outside visible spectrum' image sensors,

research technologies like stitching for small global shutter pixels and stacking,

wavelet based compression for transmission of data rates of 100 gigabits per second over fibre.

A highly qualified and multi-disciplinary team is required to develop the various aspects of the technologies such as optics, image capture, video processing and transmission. To develop and optimize these technologies for professional products, a consortium with a critical mass of world-class engineering and research skills is required. This project brings together important European players in the imaging industry with proven records of accomplishment. The team consists of an R&D institute, fabless design houses, a semiconductor manufacturer, and system integrators experienced in image sensor technologies, signal processing, transmission and camera integration. Technical results will be demonstrated in a Machine Vision and in a broadcast camera application, as well in technology demonstrators.

News & Events

PCM - January 17th, 2025

All partners participated in a hybrid (online and offline) PCM meeting, hosted by Grass Valley, to discuss progress and plan future activities.

Joint Evaluation - December 9th , 2024

IntoPIX visited GV to jointly evaluate the tico_RAW compression that GV integrated in their dual-sensor camera set up.

Dissemination by GV - October 21st-24th , 2024

Klaus Weber presented their recent work on "Film-Look in Live Production" at SMPTE 2024. The presentation can be found here.

October 11th , 2024

All partners participated in an online PCM meeting hosted by Grass Valley to discuss progress and plan future activities

October 8th to 10th , 2024

At the Vision Stuttgart 2024 trade show, the Imagination second year review GenDC demo, by Euresys/Adimec, has been showcased to the public on the EMVA booth. A related newsrelease can be read here

September 26th, 2024

ePicture This event organised at the Eindhoven University of Technology on 26th September 2024 and the best presentation award was received by Klaus Weber from Grass Valley

ePICTURE THIS 2024

Highlights of ePICTURE THIS 2024

Demos at 2nd Year Review, July 3rd,2024

Successful demonstrations by partners at the 2nd-year review in Ieper, Belgium

Second Year Review – July 3rd, 2024

Second year review held at Melexis in Ieper, Belgium

Emva Interview - March, 2024

EMVA’s interview with GenICam working group member Tim Bruylants, Image Coding and Standardization Expert at intoPIX

Talk by Paulo Possa - December, 2023

Talk by Paulo Possa from Euresys on CoaXPress over Fiber at the inVision Days in December 2023

Emva Interview - October, 2023

An interview the EMVA did with Frederik Voncken from Adimec regarding standardization, October 2023

Joint evaluation - August 30, 2023

Joint evaluation (GV and Adimec) of the GV 2/3-inch image sensor in Breda on 30th August, 2023

July 11th, 2023

Visit of Grass Valley to Adimec on July 11th, 2023 to discuss de-mosaicking

July 11th, 2023

Visit of Grass Valley to Adimec on July 11th, 2023 to discuss de-mosaicking

July 5th, 2023

Visit of Adimec to Grass Valley on July 5th, 2023 to discuss experience sharing

July 5th, 2023

Visit of Adimec to Grass Valley on July 5th, 2023 to discuss experience sharing

First year review - June 22, 2023

First year review held at TU Delft

ePicture This - June 21, 2023

ePicture This event organised at the Delft University of Technology on 21st June 2023 and the best presentation award was received by Dirk Meier from IDEAS

April 13th, 2023

Grass Valley and TNO met on April 13th in The Hague to discuss and align the work frame-based depth map generation with Deep Learning algorithms. Intention is to link the work in the Penta projects Mantis Vision and Imagination

April 13th, 2023

Progress Meeting - January 23, 2023

On 23rd January 2023, TNO and Grass Valley met in Breda to discuss the progress on deep learning depth map generation and align future activities in both the Mantis Vision and Imagination project

November 24 & 25, 2022

Imagination booth at EFECS 2022, November 24 & 25

EFECS 2022, November 24 & 25

We are glad that Project Imagination gained attention exhibiting demonstrators at EFECS 2022!

EFECS 2022, November 24 & 25

We are glad that Project Imagination gained attention exhibiting demonstrators at EFECS 2022!

October 14th, 2022

On 14 October 2022, the team met for their quarterly consortium meeting at intoPIX in Mont-Saint-Guibert. Overall project management, technical progress, and preparation of EFECS were discussed, and intoPIX demonstrated their technical achievements

Project Imagination kick-off! 8 July 2022

The project was successfully kicked-off today. The event was hosted by Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), the Netherlands.

ePicture This (workshop 2025)

After the great success of the 2023 and 2024 editions of ePicture This, we are pleased to announce that the Penta and XECS label projects ENTERTAIN, IMAGINATION, and ELEVATION will jointly organize a one day workshop: ePicture This ’25. This workshop will take place on 28 October 2025 at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Netherlands. It will provide a unique opportunity to interact with experts in imaging technologies, bringing together specialists in image sensor design, image processing in the broadest sense, and image capture design. If you are involved in the electronics, components, and systems industry, specifically in the field of digital imaging, we invite you to participate and submit a one-page abstract for a 15-minute presentation on one of the following topics. The deadline for abstract submission is 15th June 2025

Topics:

CMOS image sensor development (e.g., visual, multispectral, infrared, and time-of-flight (ToF))

Image capture systems (e.g., industrial, medical, security, agriculture, etc.)

Image processing (e.g., high dynamic range processing, image analysis, deep learning for image processing, compression)

Tools to measure and optimize image capture system performance

Invited talks by experts in these areas will also be part of the program.
Presentations can cover work from European-funded projects, but this is not a requirement. We also welcome topics developed independently outside such projects.

Venue: Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), in the Netherlands

Template download

Click here to download the template for abstract submission

Contact info

If you have any queries, please contact:

Klaas Jan Damstra - email: klaasjan.damstra@grassvalley.com
Marcel Dijkema – email: mdijkema@adimec.com

Abstract submission

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Company	Authors	Title	Journal/Conference	Date
Grass Valley	Klaus Weber	Film-Look in Live Production	SMPTE 2022 Media and Technology Summitt	October 21st-24th, 2024
Euresys/Adimec	Euresys/Adimec	CoaXPress 2.1 GenDC showcase	Vision Stuttgart 2024 Trade Show, Germany	October 8th-10th, 2024
Euresys/Adimec	Paulo Possa, Frederik Voncken, Chris Beynon, Masahito Watanabe, Masahide Matsubara, Björn Röger, Michael Fortuna, Benjamin Pussacq, Masaru Naganuma, Jiri Halak, Eric Boisvert, Jonathan Lavergne	CoaXPress over Fiber Bridge Protocol	The Standardization Committee - CoaXPress Working Group, Japan Industrial Imaging Association	November 17, 2023
TUD	Sandra K. R., Padmakumar R. Rao, P. M. Sberna, H. Aydogmus, F. Stallone, A. Theuwissen	Towards the Holygrail: CMOS-Compatible, (Near-) Infrared Image Sensors	IR Detection Workshop, Toulouse	June 2023
TNO	Corsel, Christof W. and van Lier, Michel and Kampmeijer, Leo and Boehrer, Nicolas and Bakker, Erwin M.	Exploiting Temporal Context for Tiny Object Detection	Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops	January 2023
Grass Valley	Klaus Weber	Optimized Camera Integration in IP-based Workflows and Infrastructures	Proceedings of the NAB Broadcast Engineering and Information Technology (BEIT) Conference	April 2022
Grass Valley	Klaus Weber, Jeroen Rotte	New generation 2/3“, 9.5 Mpix CMOS imager combines charge-domain global shutter operation with exceptional high-speed capability	SMPTE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition	November 2021

Project Imagination

ePicture This 2025 is coming in October 2025!